Signs of the Times

Morton T. Kelsey

Sharing

The Reverend Morton T. Kelsey in Sharing, journal of the Fellowship of St. Luke San Diego, California

The reason that we think miracles an affront to us and impossible is because we believe that we have discovered the immutable, unchangeable laws of nature. And then we think that anything that goes against such a law of nature breaks that law....

First-rate scientists don't speak so much about natural law, but about statistical averages. Instead of saying that he understands just how or why a thing acts as it does, he says that it usually acts in such a way. The hard little atoms which were so easy to understand have been broken into dozens of parts which dance and whirl around, and man by the very act of looking at them in their dance disturbs them, and the harder he tries, the further he is from finding just what makes them act as they do. And so the modern scientist is much more cautious. What he used to call laws he now calls uniform experience....

What does all this have to do with miracles? If we can't even be sure what happens within one little atom, how can we be sure what happens when the very creative force of reality, that source of all things, touches the life of man?...

Men of science can ever show you how matter changes into energy and energy to matter.... It can be shown how our ideas stir up our emotions and how the very idea that life is meaningless and hopeless may lead to death.... Our fears and hatreds, our guilts and sorrows, can alter and destroy our lives.... If this is true, how much more may the action of the very creative spirit of life, the core of being, change our bodies and restore them....

There is another curious idea which bothers so many people. It is the idea of instantaneous healings or any other instantaneous miracle. If only it takes a while for the marvelous thing to happen or the person to get well, then we are not offended, not bothered or upset!... There is no time in eternity. Eternity is an eternal now and God is in eternity. Why should His action be governed by our silly little clock time?... There is no reason.... God is Love as well as Power.

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